By: Brown S.B. No. 12 73R1288 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to personal information about jurors in a 1-3 criminal trial. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 35.29 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 35.29. PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT JURORS. Information 1-8 collected by the court or by a prosecuting attorney during the jury 1-9 selection process about a person who serves as a juror, including 1-10 the juror's home address, home telephone number, social security 1-11 number, and other personal information, is confidential and may not 1-12 be disclosed by the court, the prosecuting attorney, the defense 1-13 counsel, or any court personnel except on application by a party in 1-14 the trial to the court in which the person is serving or did serve 1-15 as a juror. On a showing of good cause, the court shall permit 1-16 disclosure of the information sought. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.